Word: stair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they did no good on an outside stair...
...impressive 86½% of the total floor space is usable office area-an unusually high percentage for London buildings and a feature especially appreciated by British authorities, in the light of their austerity program. To save space, Rosenauer put two staircases (required by fire regulations) in the same stair well like the blades of a pair of scissors...
...Hagar was on her way out of the stadium three minutes before the end of the game when she tripped or fell at the point where the aisle narrowed down along side of an exit. she feel head first, hitting her head against a bench or stair...
...entry, the new part of the House, was built in 1932 and resembles the new Houses with showers but, no bathtub, C-entry's rooms are small, and House unity suffers because there are just two rooms on each stair landing...
Author Loughlin's first novel, Helix, was a highly original sea story about engine-room hands (TIME, June 9, 1947). A Private Stair sails into deeper fictional water and for most of the passage keeps way on. The writing is taut, perhaps too spare to make DeCarlo's sudden switch entirely credible, and sometimes there is a smart-alecky playing with words and dialogue. But Loughlin has the good novelist's knack of suggesting more than he says and keeping his story moving with an air of inevitability. He is one young writer who owes...